Works, Volume 7W. Durell, 1811 |
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... expected from this paper , whether it will be uniform or various , learned or familiar , serious or gay , political or moral , continued or interrupted , it is hoped that no reader will enquire . That the Idler has some scheme , cannot ...
... expected from this paper , whether it will be uniform or various , learned or familiar , serious or gay , political or moral , continued or interrupted , it is hoped that no reader will enquire . That the Idler has some scheme , cannot ...
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... . MANY positions are often on the tongue , and sel- dom in the mind ; there are many truths which every human being acknowledges and forgets . It is gene- rally known , that he who expects much will be THE IDLER . No. 2 .
... . MANY positions are often on the tongue , and sel- dom in the mind ; there are many truths which every human being acknowledges and forgets . It is gene- rally known , that he who expects much will be THE IDLER . No. 2 .
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Samuel Johnson. rally known , that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of pro- ducing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation . He that ...
Samuel Johnson. rally known , that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of pro- ducing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation . He that ...
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... expected but suffrages and acclam- ations . There beneficence was merely occasional : he that ceased to need the favour of the people , ceased like- wise to court it ; and , therefore , no man thought it either necessary or wise to make ...
... expected but suffrages and acclam- ations . There beneficence was merely occasional : he that ceased to need the favour of the people , ceased like- wise to court it ; and , therefore , no man thought it either necessary or wise to make ...
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... expected at certain periods ; but in our island every man goes to sleep , unable to guess whether he shall behold in the morning a bright or cloudy atmos- phere , whether his rest shall be lulled by a shower , or broken by a tempest ...
... expected at certain periods ; but in our island every man goes to sleep , unable to guess whether he shall behold in the morning a bright or cloudy atmos- phere , whether his rest shall be lulled by a shower , or broken by a tempest ...
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Page 273 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 278 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Page 159 - ... virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction...
Page 272 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain.
Page 51 - ... who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements...
Page 281 - There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and...
Page 145 - Tully, who does not believe that he may yet live another year; and there is none who does not, upon the same principle, hope another year for his parent or his friend: but the fallacy will be in time detected; the last year, the last day, must come. It has come, and is past. The life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects.
Page 280 - ... the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other.
Page 174 - ... mire and water, and met not a single soul for two miles together with whom he could exchange a word. He cannot deny that, looking round upon the dreary region, and seeing nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and wished himself again safe at home.
Page 222 - HE natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.